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The US Senate on Thursday December 20 voted 86 to 13 in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, allowing the indefinite detention of American citizens without due process of law and legal trial.

In his Christmas message Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has thanked those countries that voted for ‘Observer State’ in the United Nations and appeal to those who failed to cast their votes recently in the General Assembly ‘to follow suit’.

While the entire American nation is observing two minute silence in memory of those victims of the attack on 14 December, in Newtown, in which 28 lives lost including the gunman, the National Rifle Association is going on offensive, suggesting to put armed police in every US schools.

Sustained protests over the gang-rape of a young girl in a bus erupted in Raisina Hill, the seat of power, as thousands of youth clashed with police in Delhi undeterred by the repeated use of water cannons, teargas shells and baton charge.

Google, being true to its recent tradition, marked the 125th birth anniversary of Srnivasa Ramanujan, the South Indian mathematician, with a doodle depicting his unique invaluable contributions to the field of mathematics on Saturday. The move resurrected the extraordinary story of a young man who effortlessly defied a catalogue of 20th century obstacles to leave his indelible footprints along the beach of time.